Toronto rock band Our Lady Peace knows not to tamper with a winning formula and will record its third album with local producer Arnold Lanni once again.

Lanni has worked closely with OLP since the band's inception, sharing writing credit and producing the group's very first demos.

After the four-piece signed to Sony Music Canada, he went on to produce the band's 1994 debut, "Naveed", and the follow-up, "Clumsy". His brother, Robert, manages the band with partner Eric Lawrence.

Lawrence says OLP has been writing for the new album since Oct. 1, mere weeks after its Summersault festival tour ended.

"They have a rehearsal room warehouse, where they are just working on different song ideas and different arrangements and different parts," says Lawrence. "It's the early stages. They'll go into the studio, probably in January or February. We'll see how the writing's going."

According to Michael Roth, co-head of A&R; at Sony Music Canada, "Clumsy" is "closing in" on 900,000 sales in Canada and about 600,000 in the U.S.